Definition of "impious" []

• Lacking reverence; not pious. (adjective)
• Lacking due respect or dutifulness: impious toward one's parents. (adjective)

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• "There are a hundred religions on earth which all condemn us if we believe your dogmas, which they call impious and absurd; why, therefore, not examine these dogmas?"
• "Now kesil signifies in Hebrew "impious", adjectives expressive of the stupid criminality which belongs to the legendary character of giants; and the stars of Orion irresistibly suggest a huge figure striding across the sky."
• "Satan, in impious mimicry of God's heavenly throne, sets up his earthly throne (Re 4: 2)."